Schedule 1 - Provision of regulated entertainment
Licensing Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Dr Kim Howells (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Pontypridd, Labour)
Yes. It depends where the dancing is, what form it takes and how well it is enforced by the local authority. As we have gone around the country
to see how well or astutely the currently laws are enforced, we have found big differences. Some local authorities are much more assiduous than others. Some, with a nod and a wink—I suppose that is rather appropriate when we are talking about morris dancers—allow morris dancers to continue without any licence. Others are quite strict. That seems to apply to dancing performed indoors as well as outdoors. The situation is mixed around the country.